Staff Training and Development

• Education for Living in a Drug Using World.
  
  
• Drugs Awareness First Aid Initiative
  
  
• Scottish Mental Health First Aid

Public awareness campaigns

• Supporting the national communications strategy on alcohol "Alcohol - Don't Push It" (challenging a culture of drunkenness and drunken behaviour)
  
  
• Drugs - "Know the Score"

Strategic Developments

• Develop a health promotion response to alcohol and drug corporate action areas
  
  
• Support the implementation of all three local authority alcohol and drug action plans
  
  
• Review alcohol and drug education provision in view of latest research evidence
  
  
• Act in an advisory role to Scottish Police College and their training programme for drug educators
  
  
• Contribute to the development of workplace alcohol and drug policy development and implementation

Supporting Policy Development and Implementation

• Training for managers in the implementation of alcohol and drug policies in the workplace
  
  
• Awareness raising sessions for staff in organisations introducing a substance use policy
  
  
• Develop a needs assessment for Primary Care Staff

Information Resources

• Disseminate a range of nationally developed, accurate and up to date resources on all aspects of drug and alcohol prevention, education and harm reduction.

Advice and Support

• Help build capacity for health improvement across Forth Valley.

Special Projects

• Continue to be creative in seeking-out and responding to funding opportunities, to expand or enrich substance use work across the Forth Valley area.